Definition of Slaughter

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Slaughter

The act of killing.

The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.

The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.

To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.

To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.

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Slaughter Quotations

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.
Michael Pollan

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
Ida B. Wells

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.
Michael Aston

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
Wilfred Owen

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Slaughter Translations

slaughter in Afrikaans is slag
slaughter in Dutch is afslachten, slachten
slaughter in Finnish is teurastaa
slaughter in French is abattre
slaughter in German is schlachten, schlachten, abschlachten
slaughter in Italian is macellare
slaughter in Latin is occidio, cruor
slaughter in Spanish is matanza, carnear
slaughter in Swedish is slakta, slakta, slakt

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